Crazy stuff roundup: impaled cat and newspaper carrier, armless man's thumbprints, beer case straddler/waddler...

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Georgia Man Busted For Slapping Stranger's Crying Child at Wal-Mart

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North Carolina newspaper carrier impaled on fence

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VIDEO: Graphic footage of cat that wandered from home, only to return with an arrow through his head

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Bank's thumbprint rule irks man born with no arms

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man born without arms says a Tampa-area bank would not let him cash a check because he could not provide a thumbprint.

Steve Valdez didn't have an account at a Bank of America location in downtown Tampa, where he tried to cash a check from his wife last week. However, Valdez has prosthetic arms and is unable to provide a thumbprint. He says he presented two forms of identification but was still denied.

He says a bank manager told him that he could either come back to the bank with his wife or open an account himself.

Bank of America spokeswoman Nicole Nastacie says the bank has apologized to Valdez. Nastacie says the bank should have "offered alternative requirements if an individual is not able to give a thumbprint."

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Information from: St. Petersburg Times

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

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NYC man survives after heart stops for 45 minutes

NEW YORK (AP) - A Brooklyn man is on his way to recovery after doctors say his heart stopped beating for 45 minutes.

Joseph Tiralosi was released from the hospital Tuesday. He had gone to the emergency room at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on Aug. 17 because he wasn't feeling well. Within minutes of his arrival, he collapsed and his heart stopped beating.

Doctors and nurses tried CPR and shocked him multiple times with a defibrillator. A last-ditch effort to break up any clots finally worked, and Tiralosi's pulse finally came back.

Doctors kept his body cold while they removed a clot and Tiralosi's heart started working normally.

Doctors say he lived through the episode without incurring any brain damage.

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Information from: Daily News

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

Louisiana woman caught on grocery store cameras waddling out with case of beer between thighs

ZACHARY, La. (AP) - Grocery store cameras caught the woman taking a 24-can case of beer from a cooler, exposing the 20-pound case between her thighs by pulling up her housedress, pulling her dress back down, and waddling out of the store. But it took a while to identify and find her.

Lisa Newsome, 42, of Baker, didn't deny anything when she was arrested Monday, said Capt. David McDavid of the Zachary Police Department.

"She wanted to demonstrate it ..." he said. "I told her, no thanks, I wasn't into that."

She was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a theft charge, he said.

"We weighed a case," he said. "It was 20 pounds."

The theft was Aug. 22. McDavid said police learned the woman's ident

ity last week and located her Monday afternoon.

Casey Rayborn Hicks, spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, said she did not know whether Newsome had an attorney. Newsome remained in jail Tuesday in lieu of $1,000 bond.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

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Inmate injured trying to return to jail

SHARPES, Fla. (AP) - A former inmate in Florida was injured while trying to sneak back into jail.

Sylvester Jiles suffered severe cuts from barbed wire while trying to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Cent

er Monday night.

The 24-year-old former inmate was released last week from the jail after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.

He showed up at the jail Monday night and asked to be taken back into custody because he feared family members of his victim would retaliate against him. Jail officials said they couldn't take him in and told him to file a police report.

Instead, he tried to climb over the barbed-wire fence and fell in his attempt.

He remained hospitalized for his injuries Tuesday.

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Information from: Florida Today

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.